An update on the Tennessee Democratic Party (#TNDP) chair election – Roy Herron was elected, 39-27. I’m personally already sick of the explanation that if we want to “win” in Tennessee, we need to accept being “pro-life, anti-gay, and pro-gun.” Winning on those terms doesn’t sound like winning at all to, say, women, and gay people, and the folks who love them. That sounds like keeping people in power just for the sake of it, and it’s disgusting.

National Advocates for Pregnant Women, whose director (Lynn Paltrow) is the lead author on the study of forced interventions discussed in the link above, has a lengthy post on the topic of Post-Roe v Wade and “Pro-Life” Measures.

To the Point (KCRW, heard on NPR) doesn’t seem to offer transcripts, but I believe it was guest James Bowman (@JamesVBowman), who, in an episode on women in combat, refused to acknowledge the possibility that women could be honorable, insisting that men historically have shown their honor through combat, while women have shown *their* honor through chastity. That sound you heard was a million women simultaneously headdesking, vomiting, and punching their computers/radios.

Libraryland nerd stuff: the copyright issues involved in the Jonathan Coulton/Glee/Baby Got Back story are complicated (but something fun to talk to the resident audio engineer about), but I think his response of releasing “a cover of Glee’s cover of my cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s song” is pretty clever.

This week’s “Edition” title is a nod to the fact that I just started watching Doctor Who for the first time ever recently (starting with Eccleston). I just finished up with the Tenth Doctor last night. It was the Ood song that really crushed me, in the end. Wept.

Of course! I have just gotten into reading any fanfiction in the last year or so, so appreciate any recommendations! As you might expect, I don’t like any that’s surprise-rape!, unacknowledged-rape, or total wrecking of female characters that are resilient/strong/spunky/smart in the original (especially if said wrecking is for the sake of some dude, which it usually is).